Posts by Grinwhrl

  • Resident Evil 5

    Just beat the game playing co-op with my buddy. Great boss battles, challenging scenarios and around 11-12 hours of gameplay. It was a really good wrap up to this side of the series. The camera work capcom put into the game was incredible in cut scenes.

    On the dislike side of the game; yes they could have defiantly done a bit more with the last few levels of the game. Everything started to feel less like the really awesome stuff from the beginning levels. It was still good, but more or less the same rehash of a lot of things. The overall sound ambiance was weak as shit in the game, if there was even any. Anything that once made RE creepy was pretty much gone. Besides bosses, there was a lack of monster variety throughout the game. I expected more monster types.

    Overall it was worth the money and was pretty damn good. The co-op added alot to the game, and I hope they continue with it.

  • Resident Evil 5

    Quote from Taylor

    Really enjoyed the start, the AI for Sheva was pretty good and it was fun running around and shooting things. Lots of people complained about the aiming system being too old-school (can't move with your gun up), but I kind of liked the pace. I've heard it's not too fun to play with random people, as they will just rush through the game, but I had no such intention anyway. The last half of the game wasn't quite so fun as Sheva got her self killed, repeatedly. She would not cooperate during the boss fights, she would sit their whining for ammo with a thousand bullets on the floor, she has no idea how to take cover for the shooting sections, she would run off by herself into rooms filled with enemies and I’d only realise when she started calling for help as she’s about to die again.I just stopped playing it and I doubt I’ll go back to it. I got to the final fight and was running around not sure what I’ve got to do for a good 15 minutes. I checked the Internet for the solution, for what must be the first time ever, and it turns out there’s no trick to it: you just shoot. But I was out of ammo and clearly did not enter the checkpoint with enough either. I assumed, wrongly, that I could pop back to an earlier chapter to get some supplies and continue, since there was a global inventory and a few ambiguous quit dialogues (plus the Internet guide recommended this). It auto-saved as soon as the chapter started and now I need to do chapter 6 all over again. Which is a sequence of annoying arenas and boss fights that don’t really work interspersed with QTE. I don’t think I could stomach it.

    Turns out there's a versus multiplayer addon DLC. I imagine, in true Capcom style, it's on the disk but you have to pay to activate it.

    You should find a friend to play co-op with.

  • Resident Evil 5

    Quote from Mazy

    Been playing it for about 5-6 hours, not terribly impressed with what I've played so far. In fact I've found myself borderline bored a lot of the time. It almost seems that you have to play it in co-op to get anything decent out of it, because in single-player (which I'm playing it like) the partner just feels annoying and outta place.I hope it'll get better, but its definitely not as good as RE4. Even if times and standards have changed since 2005 then that game felt a lot better overall.

    yeah the game is only good if you play it co-op, just like Halo 3 and Gears are not fun unless you play co-op.

  • Resident Evil 5

    Alright so lets talk about this game. For one, I wasn't even going to buy it, after disliking the demo, seeing way to much media hype and the dlc BS heatup, all turned me off.

    Well, I ended up getting it anyway since I love RE and its story and cannot bare to miss out. So I am pretty far in the game, playing co-op with my friend. I have to say I got every penny worth! I think the game is fantastic so far! Much more enjoyable then Resident Evil 4. I was also very skeptical about the rail shooter implementation, but it turned out similar to Gears of War for example only much better in my opinion. Story ties are coming together and the visuals have been outstanding.

    There are a few things I could nitpick about, like door loading animations have been removed being one of them; but I've been far to impressed by the majority I just don't care. I still miss my zombies though

    Comments from others who have played?

  • What have you purchased recently?

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    So I returned the Canon rebel xsi. I wasn't to happy with it and its performance, especially in low light. The Nikon D90 on the other hand, has impressed me so much. It was totally worth the extra chuck of cash. It has higher iso, up to 6400, HD Video, the feel of the camera is just right, and just the low light shots are so much better and much more stable to take. I could go on for an hour about all of the great features this camera kicks out. I'm very impressed and happy I made the switch.